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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2005
Applicant:
Nigel Ronald Evans, Bristol, GB;
Inventor:
Nigel Ronald Evans, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 19/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One embodiment of a tape drive apparatus has a non-volatile memory for storing an identifier. Data that is written by the tape drive apparatus to a loaded tape media is tagged using the identifier. This facilitates to identify the tape drive apparatus that has written the data onto the tape media such as for the purpose of failure analysis. Other devices and methods are included.